Locked myself out of wordpress admin

  • Hello, I need some help getting back into wp-admin. I’ve forgotten my password to the pop-up login installed. Its been a long time since it was installed so I can’t remember how it was set up (I believe something to do with jquery) but was wondering if anyone could give me any advise. It would be much appreciated ??

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    This article lists 7 completely different ways to reset your password. Any one of them will work and do the job. Find the one that’s right for you and use that: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Resetting_Your_Password

    I’m not familiar with that plugin/option. But if I’m realy locked out and nothing else works, I create a new password directly in the database (E.g. with PHPmyadmin)

    You’re supposed to first encrypt your new password to a Md5 hash. E.g. with
    https://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php

    And that generated MD5 hash can be placed in the database in: wd_users > (you) > user_pass

    Save it and you should be able login again. (Unless that plugin uses an entire other login feature then WP by default does ?? )

    Edit:
    Steves reply above is much more complete. We were writing at the same time ??

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Gooly.
    Thread Starter moonmelts

    (@moonmelts)

    Thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately the password in phpMyAdmin is just for the main wordpress login but it isn’t linked to the pop-up window login. Ideally I’d like to disable the pop-up all together, but I’m not sure how.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Oh, you mean an .htpassword login. It may have been added by a plugin — maybe your coming soon page plugin — or your host.

    Try disabling the coming soon thing.

    If you have FTP access, you could simply remove the plugin from the /wp-content/plugins directory. Wp is smart enough to notice an go without the plugin.
    Once you have access again you can put it back and eventually de-install it the correct way.

    Thread Starter moonmelts

    (@moonmelts)

    Thank you very much both, I have finally managed to unlock it ??

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